On a nondescript street in downtown San Francisco, an unremarkable parking garage with dusty walls and painted-over windows seems like an abandoned warehouse. Inside, however, it’s a very different scene. Row upon row of shiny self-driving cars await their moment. At first glance, they look like regular dark-gray Volvo SUVs and white Ford sedans. But …
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Intel‘s making a big bet on self-driving cars. Brian Krzanich, the chipmaker’s CEO, said Tuesday at the LA Auto Show that the company’s investment arm, Intel Capital, plans to make more than $250 million in new investments over the next two years “to make fully autonomous driving a reality.” In particular, Intel will look at technology that will drive internet …
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On a cloudy day this May, in the dull fluorescent light of a plain white Google conference room, Rafa Camargo, Richard Wooldridge and Blaise Bertrand told CNET their plan to disrupt the phone market. Ara, a Lego-like phone with modular parts, would let buyers snap on a better camera, additional batteries or any other creative hardware a developer might dream …
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Facebook has a great costume idea for Halloween, as it makes moves to catch up with ephemeral messaging app Snapchat. In 2013, the social media giant failed to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. On Monday, a report said the company earlier this year tried to buy Snow, a similar social network in Asia, but couldn’t manage to snatch it up …
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